tight

Meaning

Adj

1. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
2. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
3. (colloquial) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
4. (colloquial) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
5. (slang) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
6. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
7. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
8. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
9. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
10. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
11. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
12. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
13. (slang) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
14. (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
15. (slang) Mean; unfair; unkind.
16. Limited or restricted.
17. (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
18. (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
19. Of a player, who plays very few hands.
20. Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
21. (informal) Intimate, close, close-knit.
22. (slang) A car with understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
23. Angry or irritated.
24. (slang) still intact due to her still being a virgin.

Adv

1. Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
2. Soundly.

Verb

To tighten.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/taɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (“dense, thick, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, pull”).
Cognate with Scots ticht, West Frisian ticht, Danish tæt, Icelandic þéttur (“dense”), Norwegian tett, Swedish tät, Dutch dicht (“dense”), German dicht (“dense”).